CEO Roman Pichler, Pichler Consulting

Roman Pichler works as an independent consultant, trainer and coach. He helps organisations to embrace Lean Thinking and Scrum. He has practiced Scrum as a ScrumMaster, development manager and coach. Roman is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum Practitioner.
Roman's clients value his rich and diverse experience in Lean and Scrum ranging from embedded to enterprise Scrum projects and from helping start-ups as well as large global companies applying lean principles and Scrum. Roman played a key part in introducing Scrum at Siemens where he coached the company's first agile project.
Roman is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published a number of articles on agile an lean software development. He is the author of the book "Scrum - Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen". Roman teach both Scrum Master and Product Owner classes.

Presentation: "Master or Jack-of-all-Trades?"

Abstract: Master or Jack-of-all-Trades? How specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding makes Agile teams fun and effective.
The focus of this talk is to explore how specialist and generalist knowledge can/should be balanced by investigating the collaboration between different functions such as Product Owner, team member, developer and tester.

Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its
success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides
the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and
development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI). The
Product Owner combines the traditional project manager and the product manager
roles in one person.

This two-day interactive course equips you with all
you need to know about being an effective Product Owner. At the end of the
class, you will understand how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation
and customer satisfaction. You will be able to create a realistic release plan,
stock the product backlog, write user stories, and systematically refine
requirements. Additionally, you will know how you can increase productivity,
level the workload, and steer the project proactively.

You can learn more
about the importance of being an effective Product Owner here.

Objectives

Each participant is trained to assume the responsibilities of a Product
Owner and to apply Scrum to optimize customer satisfaction and value creation.
Audience

Product managers, innovation managers, marketing and sales staff, business
analysts, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their
understanding of the Product Owner role and the related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of project and requirements
management. It is desirable that the participants have already received some
initial training or are experienced in applying Scrum. Participants are required
to read one of the following books and watch the following video prior to
class: